Today's unsolicited #PresentationDesign tip for academics:

Keep important text in the upper half of your slide. In many physical set-ups, slide shows are projected onto low hanging screens. 🧵1/3

#PowerPoint #AcademicChatter #UX #SimplPoints

This is now the second time, I see an AI-assisted slide generator.

https://twitter.com/SilasAlberti/status/1608037989623414791

Believe me, it won't magically create good viewer experiences. It is a more fancy version of default templates

Impactful slides are designed with the users' needs and their communication context in mind. Until we can tell the AI more about our audience and presentation context, these tools will not help you bring your point across.

#PresentationDesign #PowerPoint #AcademicChatter #SimplPoints

Silas Alberti on Twitter

“ChatBCG: Generative AI for Slides ✨ This Christmas @JosephSemrai and I finally got it working!! After DALL-E 2 for images and ChatGPT for text, the final step to make all of us redundant: The world’s first Text-to-PowerPoint AI. 📊 https://t.co/VSZGsmYXEN 🚀”

Twitter
When you want to display a particular slide during Q&A, don’t hectically click through your #presentation slide-by-slide. It can confuse your audience. Instead, tame your wild slide show and use the slide navigator 🧵 (1/2) #SimplPoints #AcademicChatter #SciComm #PowerPoint